NeXT Cubes And LCD Monitors
The NeXT slabs and cubes were interesting computers for their time, with new interesting applications that are commonplace today seen first in this block of black plastic. Web browsers, for example,...
View ArticleBringing USB Devices To The Apple Desktop Bus
During the development of the greatest member of the Apple II family, the Apple IIgs, someone suggested to [Woz] that a sort of universal serial bus was needed for keyboards, mice, trackballs, and...
View ArticleBluetooth Gun Safe Cracked By Researchers
Believe it or not, there are quite a few people out there who have purchased gun safes that can be remotely unlocked by Bluetooth. Now we can understand why somebody might think this was a good idea:...
View ArticleFix Your Insecure Amazon Fire TV Stick
I recently spent a largely sleepless night at a hotel, and out of equal parts curiosity and boredom, decided to kill some time scanning the guest network to see what my fellow travelers might be up to....
View ArticleRetro PowerBook Gets a Mac Mini Transplant
Around these parts, seeing a classic laptop or desktop computer get revived with the Raspberry Pi is fairly common. While we’re not ones to turn down a well-executed Pi infusion, we know they can be...
View ArticleMacintosh Classic II With E-Ink Display
As various antique computers age, it becomes increasingly hard to operate them as hardware begins to physically fail. Keeping these systems up and running often requires scavenging parts from other...
View ArticleQuest 3 VR Headset Can Capture 3D Video (Some Tampering Required)
The Quest 3 VR headset is an impressive piece of hardware. It is also not open; not in the way most of us understand the word. One consequence of this is the inability in general for developers or...
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